The Student Presentation Initiative helps offset travel expenses for students who present their work at professional conferences attended with a faculty member. The initiative also funds faculty-sponsored student conferences held at Hunter.

The Student-Faculty Research Initiative supports students who take part with faculty members in research, scholarship, and creative projects. Since these initiatives were launched in 2007-08, grants totaling more than $50,000 have supported dozens of activities, including conferences on media, feminism, mathematics, and animal welfare, a model UN at Harvard, film screenings, dinners, and lectures.